Usually means: Splitting wood along grain lines.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. riving: Merriam-Webster
  2. riving: Collins English Dictionary
  3. riving: Vocabulary.com
  4. riving: Wordnik
  5. riving: Wiktionary
  6. Riving, riving: Dictionary.com
  7. Riving: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Riving: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. riving: FreeDictionary.org
  10. riving: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riving: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. riving: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (riving)

▸ noun:  (historical, agriculture) A strip of a townfield.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A piece of split wood.

Similar:
pull, cleave, rend, rip, split, headrig, thorough, windrow, yard, bout, more...

Opposite:
uniting, joining, merging, combining

Phrases:
riving knife, frost riving, more...



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Similar:
pull, cleave, rend, rip, split, headrig, thorough, windrow, yard, bout, more...

Opposite:
uniting, joining, merging, combining

Phrases:
riving knife, frost riving, more...



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